From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 13:53:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jezebel.demon.co.uk (jezebel.demon.co.uk [158.152.38.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D5837B449 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 13:53:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdls@jezebel.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rdls@localhost) by jezebel.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4JKoOk01017; Sat, 19 May 2001 21:50:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rdls) Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 21:50:24 +0100 From: Richard Smith To: Larry Moe Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Win 98 Networked printer? Message-ID: <20010519215023.A845@gaia.home.rdls.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from larry559@hotmail.com on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:08:19AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:08:19AM -0400, Larry Moe wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to Unix. I'm setting up FBSD v4.2 to use for in-house web > development. It's on a PC connected to an ethernet tcp/ip network that has > several Windows 98 machines and several Mac machines. > > (I've accomplished installing FBSD, an X desktop, Netscape 4.08 and Apache.) > > Can I make use of a shared printer on a Windows 98 machine? And if so, where > can I find instructions on how to set it up? The samba port includes the capability to send prints to windows print queues. See the FreeBSD handbook for a general discussion on setting up printing, and smbprint (within the samba documentation) for a unix->windows print filter. Rich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message